Tag Archives: Palestine

THE LEVANT – A definitive end to the four-week conflict in Gaza appeared possible on Tuesday morning as an agreed 72-hour ceasefire between Hamas and Israel came into effect and the Israeli military said it had withdrawn from the Palestinian territory. The suspension of hostilities came into force at 8am on Tuesday and is due to be followed …

By Asmaa Al Ghoul for Al Monitor – Tears flowed until my body ran dry of them when I received a telephone call on Aug. 3, informing me that my family had been targeted by two F-16 missiles in the city of Rafah. Such was the fate of our family …

By Dr. Amir Dabiri – Twenty-seven days have passed since the Israeli regime launched an all-out assault on the Gaza Strip in southwestern Palestine. With a population of 1.8 million people and a total area of 360 square kilometers, the region has turned into the focal point of the Palestinians’ resistance against the …

By Behrouz Bahmani – This front page headline in last week’s New York Times caught my eye. OK I don’t actually read the New York Times. But I am addicted to coffee. And at the Starbucks I go to for my $1.90 Tall Veranda/Blonde blended drip (just because I love saying, “I’ll …

THE LEVANT – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to achieve the objectives of his war on the Gaza Strip, the Anadolu news agency reported a Hamas official as saying today. Sami Abu Zuhri, the movement’s spokesman, said in a statement: “Netanyahu has utterly failed in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is still …

– “The President of the [French] Republic, [Francois Hollande], condemned the unacceptable shelling of a UN school in Rafah, resulting in the death of at least ten people who took refuge in it,” said a statement by the French Presidency on Monday. Hollande “joined the UN Secretary General in asking …

THE LEVANT- Grand Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani used his Eid al-Fitr sermon to call for “jihad” to liberate “Palestine’s sacred land from Jewish foreign occupation.” Jihad “is the duty of each and every one of you no matter how much sacrifices are made,” he said, while deploring Arab weakness and apathy in …

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 96 (I) (11 December, 1946) – Genocide is a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, … and …

THE LEVANT – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah condemned the war in Gaza Friday as a “collective massacre” and a crime against humanity, but stopped short of directly condemning Israel for its ground campaign against Hamas. Unlike past Gaza wars, including the devastating 2008 offensive, the Saudi monarch did not condemn …

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS – Two Palestinian journalists were killed yesterday in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. Rami Rayan, a photographer for the local news agency the Palestinian Network for Journalism and Media, was killed instantly as he was taking pictures of …

THE LEVANT – By Rashid Khalidi – Three days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the current war in Gaza, he held a press conference in Tel Aviv during which he said, in Hebrew, according to the Times of Israel, “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always …

By Niala Hussain -“From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” – one of the many chants being yelled out during our protest to the Israeli Embassy and the Houses of Parliament throughout the streets of London, Kensington. With over thousands of people peacefully demonstrating against the Israeli war …

THE LEVANT EXCLUSIVE – Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has virulently slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for suggesting that Israel might have committing war crimes when willingly and knowingly targeting a UN school on Thursday. The school which acted a refuge for civilians – mainly women and …

This week our Editor in Chief, Catherine Shakdam had the pleasure to discuss developments in Gaza with a prominent scholar and religious authority, Rabbi Meir Hirsch. Leader of Neturei Karta, a Jewish Orthodox community based in Al Quds – Jerusalem – Rabbi Hirsch has long resisted Zionism and the narrative …

Dearest friends, The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent. The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 …

France’s government provoked outrage on Saturday by becoming the first in the world to ban protests against Israeli action in Palestine. In what is viewed as an outrageous attack on democracy, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said mass demonstrations planned for the weekend should be halted. Mr Cazeneuve said there …

THE LEVANT EXCLUSIVE – By Catherine Shakdam – As many have yet to wake up from the nightmare of Shujaiyya, when Israeli soldiers slaughtered their way through east Gaza, maiming and killing at random as if Palestinians were no more than cattle brought to the slaughter, Zionists stoop yet again …

PARIS – Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Paris on Saturday as they defied a ban on a planned rally against violence in the Gaza strip. A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. Demonstrators also climbed …

The international community should uphold its role and force Israel to stop its aggression against the Palestinian people as agreed upon on November 2012, Thursday said Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in a press statement. “We are a people under occupation,” said Erekat, adding: “Israel does not defend itself, as …

President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House said. “The United States remains prepared to facilitate a …

UFree press release – A 20-year-old Palestinian woman, Bushra Al-Tawil, was abducted in the middle of the night on 1st of July from her home in the West Bank village of Al-Bireh — signaling an expansion of the Israeli campaign of mass arrests beyond males. Al-Tawil is one of more than …

By Khaled Diab – Following the horrific murders of Israeli and Palestinian teens, it is time for people on both sides to rise up in silent joint and simultaneous protest against all forms of political violence. The dry, brittle and inflammable political and psychological wasteland which stands between Palestinians and …

First post mortem examination findings confirm that the 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was murdered in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) was burned alive, Palestinian attorney-general says. “The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire,” Mohammed al-A’wewy was quoted as saying. The post mortem examination on Mohammed Abu Khdeir …

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, a major opponent of the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, has pledged to seek a “ceasefire” in the besieged Gaza Strip. Speaking to President of the Palestinian National Unity Government Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, Sisi said that Egypt seeks “to halt escalations and works to reach a …

“The media in the Jewish state wallows in the murder of three Israeli students,” says Gideon Levy, while almost entirely ignoring several Palestinian youths killed by army fire over the last few months. Gideon Levy, writes for the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz. THE YOUTHS of the Jewish state are attacking …

Palestinian resistance fighters have fired more rockets at Israeli cities after the Tel Aviv regime carried out dozens of airstrikes on Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday. Israel said it had intercepted eight rockets over Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Ashdod on Wednesday morning. Medical officials in Gaza said one …